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Judy Blume: Let children read...

Judy Blume: Let children read...

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't...

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Margaret Walker: I want my...

Margaret Walker: I want my...

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song -- the fusion of the...

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Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of...

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Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to...

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Colette: It is wise...

Colette: It is wise...

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: Life means work,...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: Life means work,...

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

Source:
-- Jennie...

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George Eliot: It is seldom...

George Eliot: It is seldom...

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are...

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Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...

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Alice Walker: God is inside...

Alice Walker: God is inside...

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just...

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Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is...

Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in...

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E L Konigsburg: Lying in bed...

E L Konigsburg: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free...

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Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

How success changes the opinion of men!

Source: The Will, 1800.
-- Maria...

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Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...

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Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Source: Doctor, in Nightwood, ch. 5,...

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Anne Tyler: People always call...

Anne Tyler: People always call...

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Source:...

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Gail Godwin: Dreams say what...

Gail Godwin: Dreams say what...

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Source: Dream...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.


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Eleanor H Porter: What men and...

Eleanor H Porter: What men and...

What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues....

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Madeleine L'Engle: No matter how...

Madeleine L'Engle: No matter how...

No matter how true I believe I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have...

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Marguerite de Valois: The woman who...

Marguerite de Valois: The woman who...

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her...

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